Due to Latvia's strategic location and prosperous city, its territories were a frequent focal point for conflict and conquest between at least four major powers, the State of the Teutonic Order ( later Germany ), the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden and Russia.

Due to the conflicts, rival European powers did not move into the interior of New Jersey for settlement for decades.

Due to these powers, all the members of the UN are supposed to be impartial.

Due to the importance of water traffic, regional powers often had their own private navies.

Now named as the superhero Time-Zone, Nina became the third member of the Shock Pack, but her time as a member was brief: Due to an encounter with Ebon, Nina decided that her powers were too dangerous to keep, and went back in time to stop her past self from being present at the night of the Big Bang ( by stealing her own bike, according to Richie.

Due to the Western powers ' declared neutrality, the Americans refused to release the ship, but once neutrality was lifted, the imperial faction obtained the vessel and employed it in engagements in Hakodate under the name Kōtetsu ( literally " Ironclad ").

Due to the environment ( Earth's yellow sun and lower gravity ), Krypto possessed the same powers and abilities as his master, although his physical abilities were proportionate to his smaller size and species, similar to an ordinary dog vs. a human.

Due to the massive amount of powers he absorbed, his blood turned acidic.

Due to the various powers of committee selection and bill assignment, the lieutenant governor is arguably considered more powerful than the Governor of Texas, and is considered one of the most powerful lieutenant governorships in the United States.

Due to the addictive nature of Miraclo ( he later invented a non-addictive formula ), the way that Hourman accessed his powers changed somewhat over the years.

'" Under Harlan's approach, judges would be limited in the Due Process area by " respect for the teachings of history, solid recognition of the basic values that underlie our society, and wise appreciation of the great roles that the doctrines of federalism and separation of powers have played in establishing and preserving American freedoms.

Due to experimentation on his own genome, his highly enhanced brain and cybernetic exoskeleton, The High Evolutionary has demonstrated god-like powers ; such as the ability to evolve and devolve life-forms ; matter manipulation at a subatomic level ; matter creation ; energy manipulation and projection ; cosmic awareness ; precognition ; telepathy ; telekinesis ; extra-dimensional travel ; and size alteration.

Due to not being infected by a techno-organic virus as Cable was, X-Man achieved vast telepathic and telekinetic powers and was one of the most powerful mutants in existence during his lifetime.

Due to the experiments she was put through in the Breeding Pens, Skids ' powers have been mastered to such a point that she could shield herself and several others from Storm's lightning bolts.

Due to the Scarlet Witch's magic, she is one of the many mutants to lose her powers after the events of Decimation.

Due to their psychic powers, Leeran-Controllers are able to see past the Animorphs ' forms and discover that they are human.

Due to his mythical status as a mountain saint, he was believed to possess many supernatural powers.

Due to the use of her powers causing subtle ' reality warps ' whenever she uses them to any great extent, continued use of her powers has driven her increasingly closer to insanity, until, finally, she has gone insane, believing that the Avengers ' took ' her children away from her, and seek to do so again.

Due to the Italian Peninsula's history of fragmentation and colonization by foreign powers ( especially France, Spain and Austria-Hungary ) between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and unification in 1861, there was considerable linguistic diversification.

Due to public pressure and the demands of handling the complex day-to-day affairs of the city, Congress eventually agreed to devolve certain powers over the District to an elected local government.

Due to radiation exposure, he becomes a serial killer, feeding on many people in order to allow his regenerative powers to keep him from succumbing.

Due to the combined effect of the destruction and recreation of the multiverse and the timeline-altering powers of Anansi, a new divergent timeline was created in which David Kim, the most worthy man alive, became Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan.

Due to this new function on her suit, Kimiyo is able to regain her powers and Dr. Light's identity after Curtis gives her Arthur's remains.

Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

Due to his complete independence as a filmmaker, Chaplin has been identified by Andrew Sarris as one of the first auteur filmmakers.

Due to the situation in Iberia, Martel believed he needed a virtually full-time army — one he could train intensely — as a core of veteran Franks who would be augmented with the usual conscripts called up in time of war.

Due to the potential snap available with this technique, one can expect greater distance and accuracy than with its counterpart.

Due to his disobedience regarding the commanded punishment of the Amalekites ( the sworn enemies of Israel ), God dethroned Saul from kingship and vowed that the crown would be given to one that he had chosen.

Due to the movement of the Earth around the Earth-Moon barycenter, the apparent path of the Sun wobbles slightly, with a period of about one month ; due to perturbations by the other planets of the Solar System, the Earth-Moon barycenter wobbles slightly around a mean position in a complex fashion.

Due to the severity of its ecological effects, and the scale on which it is occurring, erosion constitutes one of the most significant global environmental problems we face today.

Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and the city is noted for its history, culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments.

Due to its large size, the Golgi apparatus was one of the first organelles to be discovered and observed in detail.

Due to the social custom that men and women should not be near to one another, the women of China were reluctant to be treated by male doctors of Western Medicine.

Due to the cooperative nature of liquid crystal ordering, however, a small amount of chiral dopant in an otherwise achiral mesophase is often enough to select out one domain handedness, making the system overall chiral.

Due to the fact that one of his trades was selling fireworks, he always made the Fourth of July memorable.

Due to the formation of water as one of the products, these reactions are known as dehydration.

Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth ; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh ’ s journey to meet Utnapishtim.

Due to his array of comedy characters, Johnny Depp has said Whitehouse is one of the best actors he has seen.

Due to the influence of the Egyptian President Nasser, the PLO supported ' Pan-Arabism ', as advocated by him – this was the ideology that the Arabs should live in one state.

Due to the reduction in the number of electrical items the wiring loom was reduced in complexity which saved weight and also the battery was replaced with a smaller one, again reducing weight.

Due to the rarity of such 8M Memory Packs, however, the game is one of the most expensive on the Japanese secondary market-listed as 13th most expensive game in Akihabara by Wired Magazine.

Due to federalism, immediately after the 1989 revolution, two national governments ( one for the Czech Republic, one for Slovakia ) were created as well under the federal Czechoslovak government.

Due to the Pauli exclusion principle, every state can contain only one electron.

Due to the untimed nature of innings, some leagues impose caps on the number of runs that can be scored in one inning, usually in the 4-8 range.

Due to the long waiting period between ordering a Trabant and actually taking delivery ( in some cases years passed as scarce materials were obtained ), people who finally received one treated the car gently and were meticulous in maintaining and repairing it.

Due to mastering errors, the UK and Australian versions of Apollo 18 contained " Fingertips " as one track.